University of North Carolina Athletics
UNC-Syracuse Postgame Notes
January 27, 2015 | Men's Basketball
• Carolina is now 17-4 overall, 7-1 in the ACC and 9-2 at the Smith Center this season.
• The Tar Heels are 5-4 against Syracuse. This was the first meeting ever between the schools in Chapel Hill.
• This was the 741st win for ROY WILLIAMS, tying him for 16th place all-time with John Chaney. Former Kansas coach Phog Allen is 15th with 746.
• WILLIAMS has won 322 games at Carolina. His ACC regular-season record is now 137-51, a percentage of .729 that is now the second-highest in ACC history. (Duke's Vic Bubas is first at .768, Dean Smith is third at .728).
• CAROLINA more than doubled its point total from the last time it played Syracuse. UNC scored 93 points this evening, 48 more than it had in the 57-45 loss in the Carrier Dome last January.
• Sophomore guard NATE BRITT made a career-high four three-pointers and scored a career-high 17 points. Britt, who received 15 stitches in his upper lip last Wednesday at Wake Forest, did not make multiple threes in any of his first 45 games as a Tar Heel. In the last 10 games, he has hit two three times (UAB, William and Mary and Louisville) and four tonight vs. the Orange.
• BRITT became the first Tar Heel other than Marcus Paige this year to make at least three three-pointers in a game (Paige also hit four tonight and has made three or more 10 times this year).
• BRITT's 17 points are the fourth time he has scored in double figures this season and the seventh time as a Tar Heel.
• BRITT's 17 points are the most points off the bench this year by any Tar Heel.
• BRICE JOHNSON posted his fourth double-double in the last six games with a 17-point, 11-rebound effort this evening. Johnson has five double-doubles this year and seven in his career. He had 11/11 vs. Louisville, 12/11 vs. Virginia Tech, 18/14 vs. Florida State and 17/11 vs. Syracuse.
• JOHNSON is averaging 10.0 rebounds over the last six games (60 rebounds in six games.
• JOHNSON was 6 for 6 from the floor. That's his best single-game shooting effort since he went 8 for 8 from the floor last year against Maryland.
• MARCUS PAIGE led Carolina with 22 points, six rebounds, eight assists, four steals and no turnovers. It is the second time in five games that the pre-season All-America scored 20 or more points and had at least eight assists without a turnover. Paige had 23 points, nine assists and no miscues at NC State on Jan. 14.
•This was the fifth time in his career that PAIGE had at least seven assists without a single turnover.
• PAIGE now has 88 assists, one more than J.P. TOKOTO. This is the first time all season that Paige has taken over the team lead in assists.
• PAIGE registered the third 20-point game of the season and the 14th of his career.
• PAIGE made four three-pointers tonight, the fourth time this year and the 16th time in his career he has made at least four in a game.
• PAIGE had four steals and has 14 steals in the last four games.
• J.P. TOKOTO had six assists, the fourth time this he handed out at least six assists. He also committed six turnovers, which matches his career high (this year vs. Kentucky and UNCG).
• CAROLINA'S 93 points are the most scored against Syracuse since the Orange beat Connecticut, 127-117, in six overtimes on March 12, 2009. It's the most points scored against the Orange in regulation since a 102-85 win by Villanova on Feb. 7, 2009.
• CAROLINA shot 55.4 percent from the floor for the game (31 of 56), the third-highest percentage it has shot in an ACC game this year (60.3 vs. Wake Forest and 55.6 vs. NC State).
• CAROLINA'S field goal percentage of .554 is the highest allowed in a game by Syracuse this year. No team had shot higher than 47.3 percent (Holy Cross) against the Orange this year.
• CAROLINA scored 93 points, its highest in an ACC game this year (most since 108 vs. East Carolina on Dec. 7) and the most allowed by Syracuse this year (previous was 83 points in an overtime game by Wake Forest and 73 points in regulation by California).
• CAROLINA committed a season-high 20 turnovers (previous was 19 vs. Butler and Florida). This was the first time UNC committed at least 20 turnovers in a win since the Tar Heels had 20 against UAB on Dec. 1, 2012.
• CAROLINA had four players score 17 or more points (Paige 22, Britt 17, Johnson 17 and Meeks 17). That's the first time this year UNC has had four players score that many points in a game.
• CAROLINA'S bench played 45 minutes and scored 25 points. Syracuse's bench played 23 minutes and did not score.
• SYRACUSE out-scored the Tar Heels 21-5 in points off turnovers. The Tar Heels committed 20 turnovers, 13 in the first half. The Orange scored 16 of its 40 points in the first half off turnovers (40 percent), but only five of its 43 points in the second half off turnovers (11.6 percent).
• The 21 points are the third-most allowed by UNC off turnovers this year (24 by Florida and Kentucky). Carolina's five points off turnover are UNC's fewest this season (previous seven vs. Clemson). The point differential of -16 is the largest this year (Kentucky out-scored UNC, 24-14, off turnovers).
• CAROLINA out-rebounded the Orange, 42-27. The 15-rebound margin is the largest against Syracuse this year. Georgia Tech and Clemson both out-boarded the Orange by 10.
• CAROLINA made a season-high nine three-point field goals (previous was eight vs. UCLA and William and Mary).
• CAROLINA shot a season-high 56.2 percent from three-point range on nine of 16 shooting from behind the arc (previous high for at least 10 attempts was 50.0 percent on 6 of 12 shooting against UCLA).
• CAROLINA scored 58 points in the second half, the second-highest point total in a half this season (60 vs. East Carolina in second half).
• CAROLINA won for the first time this season when trailing at the half. The Tar Heels are now 1-3 when trailing at the half.
• SYRACUSE's 29 field goals are the most by an opponent in a game this year (previous were 28 by Louisville and NC State).
• North Carolina scored 93 points on Monday against Syracuse in a 93-83 Tar Heel victory. Last year, UNC lost to the Orange, 57-45. UNC scored 48 more points than it did last year against the Orange, more than doubling its points total from one game to the next.
• CAROLINA more than doubled its point total against an opponent from one game to the next in consecutive years or the same year for the first time since 1982-83. The Tar Heels beat Virginia, 47-45, in the ACC championship game in Greensboro on March 7, 1982, then beat the Cavaliers, 101-95, in Charlottesville on Jan. 15, 1983.
UNC has accomplished this just one other time in the ACC era (since 1953-54). On March 4, 1966, Duke defeated the Tar Heels, 21-20, in the ACC Tournament in Raleigh. The next meeting, on Jan. 7, 1967, Carolina beat the Blue Devils, 59-56, in Durham. It also occurred against Duke in 1930, against NC State in 1920-21 and 1926-27, and against Wake Forest in 1946-47.
